The novel is narrated by Tommy, an eleven-year-old boy living with his parents, Carina and Henning, and his three younger siblings in a financially strained household in rural Denmark. From the beginning, it is obvious that something is seriously wrong with Tommy’s relationship with school. He hides his schoolbag, tries to stay home and repeatedly […]
Hamløber has a compelling concept but is much too long and repetitious for what it ultimately wants to say. Rosengaard has several strong central ideas—online identity as shape-shifting, paranoia produced from a mixture of authentic harassment and algorithmic reinforcement, the internet as a homeland rather than a technology, and love becoming indistinguishable from shared delusion—but […]
The sixth book continues Tara Selter’s life inside the repeated eighteenth of November. By this point she and many others have lived for thousands of repetitions of the same date. They have aged, formed communities, attempted research projects, built archives, repaired buildings, grown food, fallen in and out of love, and repeatedly asked whether they […]
The Friend in Love is not a conventional plot-driven novel. It is closer to a diary, essay, love letter, breakup record, literary meditation, and autofictional confession. Its central story is the narrator’s long friendship with a younger man, called mostly W. or “you,” and the way that friendship becomes an unequal, consuming love affair. The […]
A wax child or doll is a type of Nordic voodoo doll, used to inflict harm on others. It is made from bee wax, nails, hair, or other parts of the intended victim. This one is created by the unmarried noblewoman Christenze Kruckow instead of a human child, serving as our peculiar, immortal, all-seeing narrator. […]
It is Midsummer in the forest of Northern Jutland in Denmark. Seven friends meet up once again to spend seven days together in a summer cottage. The weather is beautiful, and the backdrop of the forest and lake exude lush anticipation at the height of this Scandinavian summer. It is a creative group of well-educated […]
Money To Burn is the first novel in a series of seven volumes currently in progress, all revolving around the murder case on the ship Scandinavian Star in 1990, which cost the lives of 159 people. On a bus ride across the island of Funen in the south of Denmark, the narrator – identifiable as the author […]
This collection of short stories is a series of diverse and surreal narratives that delve into the human condition within the backdrop of a globalised world. These stories, while varying in content and theme, share an overarching sense of the strange and the profound. They are written with exceptional craftsmanship, offering intense and vivid scenes […]
In this story, Tara Selter finds herself stuck in a time loop on November 18th. She’s initially alone in this repeating day until she meets Henry Dale, a sociologist from Norway who’s also trapped in this temporal anomaly. They bond over their shared predicament and become companions. Tara notices that Henry’s clothing changes from day […]
In the second book of the series, Tara Selter finds herself still trapped in a perplexing time-loop, stuck on November 18th for 368 days with no apparent escape. Initially hopeful that a return to Paris might break the cycle, Tara’s optimism wanes as she resigns herself to the never-ending repetition of this day. Instead of […]